{"id":453867,"date":"2023-08-04T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453867"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:49:25","slug":"southgate-understands-hendersons-criticism-after-his-transfer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/southgate-understands-hendersons-criticism-after-his-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Southgate understands Henderson&#8217;s criticism after his transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate shared that he knows why LGBTQ+ has criticized Jordan Henderson after deciding to play in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \u201cWhat are we saying? Nobody should go to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NUFC<\/a>? Or nobody should work for a company the Saudis own?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 \u201cI get the argument, I understand why the LGBTQ+ community have a strong view on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Southgate insists Henderson is not a hypocrite after moving to Saudi Arabia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jtObkJEdFK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jtObkJEdFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkSPORT\/status\/1687507957901139977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gareth thinks that despite that, the player can still be useful to the community even after joining Al-Ettifaq last month.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Liverpool captain inked with the Saudi Arabian side after they paid 17 million dollars + add-ons to the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that matter is very complicated,&#8221; England\u2019s head coach told Talksport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not the one to judge any player working in Saudi Arabia or any other industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this changes who he is and his beliefs. So nobody should sign with Newcastle in the Premier League if that&#8217;s the case?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should nobody work for companies the Saudis own in England, or should nobody buy oil from them until they change their views?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex sexual activity is illegal in the Arabian country as punishment could result in the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate shared that he knows why LGBTQ+ has criticized Jordan Henderson after deciding to play in Saudi Arabia. \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \u201cWhat are we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453868,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19612,17832,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19613,20635,17886],"acf":{"announce":"Jordan continued his football career in Saudi Arabia.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453867"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453867"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}